Jess | CEO @ Blockus

Be careful what you post anonymously. New research shows AI can find who you are solely from your posts. It's rare to see ~500x research improvements, but they went from mapping <0.1% to 54% of HackerNews profiles to their LinkedIn. It's so over, u/throwaway4927.

A reminder only 1.7% of venture capital goes to female founders. Yes early stage VC is a pattern matching game. Diane Greene, Founder CEO of VMWare showed greatness before 21 and was an operator engineering manager before founding VMWare - $60+B market cap at 42 w 2 kids. Women often get our opportunity late in life due to a variety of factors - discrimination, innate bias, harassment and many other 1000 ways society throws in our way to take away our power. But at a certain point as capital allocators, you build the future you want to see. A reminder that while only getting 1.7% of funding, women return MUCH better - 78 cents vs 31 cents so if you only fund male founders who’s worst experience in life is someone trashing his product on twitter vs female founders who on average have a stalker, went through doxxing, and regularly get underestimated and therefore are pros at BD and sales - you’re literally a DEI warrior and don’t deserve to cry when you get yelled at by your LPs and never raise a fund 2. QED. Ok a LinkedIn rewrite of last paragraph: Funding founders with operational prowess who does not look like your typical guy - whether that be an Asian male, women of colour or otherwise, based on merit other than feels is a benefit to the founders and society overall. “Classic” founders regularly raise 50-100m as a team bet whereas female founders can’t get a team bet at 1m - 10m. If we want more innovation, more tech adoption and a better society, we need to be the change we want to see. Fund female founders.

First day in SF and already met Garry Tan at Chipotle on his birthday Told him what I was building and the guy invited me for an interview SF is truly the greatest city on Earth